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Microsoft to Acquire Yammer — Microsoft extends cloud services with best-in-class enterprise social networking. — Microsoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks, for $1.2 billion in cash.

On Orbitz, Mac Users Steered to Pricier Hotels — Orbitz Worldwide Inc. has found that people who use Apple Inc.'s Mac computers spend as much as 30% more a night on hotels, so the online travel agency is starting to show them different, and sometimes costlier, travel options than Windows visitors see.

Facebook Names Sheryl Sandberg to Its Board of Directors — Facebook announced today that Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook, has joined the company's board of directors. — Sandberg oversees Facebook's business operations including sales, marketing, business development …

Apple Quietly Pulls Claims of Virus Immunity — In the wake of the Flashback botnet which targeted Mac computers, Apple has removed a statement from its messages on its website that Mac operating system X (OS X) isn't susceptible to viruses. — Apple removed the previous statement …

Microsoft: We Won't Build Own Windows Phones — Microsoft exec categorically denies reports that the company plans to bring its Surface tablet strategy to the smartphone market. — A Microsoft executive said the company has no plans to manufacture its own company-branded smartphones …

165TB of New Imagery Added to Bing Maps — Today we're thrilled to announce the publication of our largest satellite release to date. In fact, this release is larger than all of our past Aerial releases combined! — The latest Aerial release includes new Satellite imagery as well as Global Ortho photography.

How close is Windows 8 to being ‘done’? — Summary: When will Microsoft christen Windows 8 as being “done”? At this point in the game, no one from Microsoft has stated this in any official capacity. — Believe or not, folks, Microsoft execs still have not said when Windows 8 will be “done.”

Wired and The New Yorker Pull Back on Flipboard — Shelving Efforts to Sell Ads, Curtailing ‘Flip-able’ Content — Some magazines are developing Flipboard fatigue. — Wired and The New Yorker are suspending efforts to sell ads on the platform and replacing their robust Flipboard feeds next month …

eHarmony Password Dump Analysis — Unless you've been hauled up in a bunker, eating MREs and watching Doomsday Preppers marathons, you've likely heard of the recent compromise of over 1.5 million eHarmony password hashes. After a little work tracking down the hashes, we launched several attacks …

Netflix open sources Asgard cloud deployment smarts — Very few companies know how to scale and deploy cloud applications like Netflix, the ginormous movie streaming site. And now it's making some of that cloud management expertise available to the masses via Github.

Google introduces new I/O live blogging tool — Just days ahead of the yearly Google I/O event, Google has introduced a rather interesting live blogging tool that taps into Google+ page posts and pulls from the I/O live video feed. — This tool, which you can see below, is currently not event agnostic.

New iPhone prototypes have NFC chips and antenna — We've previously been able to pull data from PreEVT iPhone 5,1 and iPhone 5,2 prototypes codenamed N41AP (5,1) and N42AP (5,2), which leads us to believe that the new iPhone will have a bigger 1136×640 display.